Everytime I try to pull up a Hub Page or edit a Hub Page, my Avast kicks in and tells me Malware has been blocked.
I tried it in Firefox and Chrome and got warnings on both.
Discovered nothing untoward here (famous last words).
Yup, you are correct but it is NOT Hubpages. Doubleclick, one of the ads served by Google adsense, is spreading malware.
I get it right now on all my sites with adsense and all other websites out there with adsense.
I ran a scan with Avast, Malware bytes and Windows Defender.
Avast caught it and it was an HTML script embedded in an ad.
I think it hid in the temp folder.
But I just got finished running all three scans and everything is clear now.
Have you seen the link I put in this thread:
http://hubpages.com/forum/topic/72730
It was a bad update, Avast! was putting out false positives. Update to the most current and all will be fine.
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